From Our Blog

Hi, I'm Liz, welcome to Eight Acres. I live on a small farm in Kumbia, Australia, with my husband, Pete, and our dogs Taz and Gus. This website started off as a blog for sharing all the things we make and grow on our small farm. We keep a small herd of beef cattle and a few dairy cows. We also have lots of chickens, bees and a vege garden.

Now as well as sharing what I'm learning, I can share what we make through our virtual farmgate (online shop), where I sell natural handmade tallow soap and raw chemical-free honey and beeswax.

For Women

All my soaps are handmade by me on my property near the small town of Kumbia in country Queensland. I use beef tallow in all my soaps. This is rendered by me from beef fat that I source from a local abattoir. Not only is beef tallow essentially a waste product for the abattoir, and therefore a sustainable ingredient, it is also great for making soap.

Beef tallow makes a very hard, long-lasting bar of soap. I get complaints that it lasts too long and people want to try another bar before they can use up the first one! It is also great for your skin. Beef tallow is very close to the sebum in our own skin, so it makes a lovely gentle soap that does not strip or dry your skin.

I use no artificial colours, fragrancesor detergents in my soap, I only use natural ingredients like herbs, botanicals, clays and essential oils.

These soaps are a little bit fancy - affordable luxury soaps - use them in the bath or shower everyday, don't save them for special occasions!